Articles by Scottish Socialist Voice

Editorial: Spin, Neglect, and Anger: How Labour’s Failures Fuel the Far Right

November 21, 2025

By Ken Ferguson AS THE VOICE goes to press, the grumbling volcano of fear and resentment sparked among Labour MPs by the party’s opinion poll plunge to all-time historic ...

Education is in a special class of crisis

November 17, 2025

(Photo: Craig Maclean) Lecturers and other staff at the University of Edinburgh are beginning a further three days of strike action in a dispute over the university’s plans ...

Palestine Protestors Oppose Glasgow Life’s Hosting of Far Right Group

May 11, 2025

By Jamie O’Rourke Hundreds of Pro-Palestine activists gathered outside the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on Sunday to protest the venue’s hosting of the group Glasgow ...

Wildfires shine a light on fire and rescue service cuts

April 22, 2025

The outbreak of numerous wildfires in Scotland has been news headlines in recent weeks. SSP national trade union organiser Richie Venton spoke about this to Colin Brown, the ...

40-year free market fairytale exposed, as public ownership returns centre stage

April 22, 2025

by Ken Ferguson • Leave aside the panicky Saturday recall of parliament amidst a welter of sub Churchillian guff about the ‘national interest’. The real story in the ...

Tenementals’ radical debut album ‘conjures a constellation of possibilities’

April 6, 2025

Glasgow: A History (Vol. I of VI) by The Tenementals, LP/CD/digital album on Strength In Numbers Records. (Photo: Julia Bauer) Album review by Malcolm McGonigle • Pop music ...

For struggle and socialist policies to end Labour’s class war

April 6, 2025

by Richie Venton, SSP national trade union organiser • A new and vicious class war against the working class has been unleashed, against the sick, the disabled, children, ...

Labour promises of prosperity based on slaughter are the ultimate betrayal

April 6, 2025

by Ken Ferguson • Capitalist cheerleader Chancellor Reeves’s so-called “spring statement” which plunged tens of thousands into poverty and placed the development and ...

Miners’ strike book is a lesson in class war

March 16, 2025

• Class War on Workers: the great miners’ strike 1984-85 and its aftermath by Richie Venton. A Scottish Socialist Party publication, available here If we know our ...

Worker responses to AI

March 16, 2025

by John Bratton • In the last issue, I explored how AI already poses tangible harms to our planet, society, and workers. While AI has significant benefits, for example, in ...